engulfed

英 [ɪnˈɡʌlft]

美 [ɪnˈɡʌlft]

v.  包围; 吞没; 淹没; 严重影响
engulf的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：engulfed　过去式：engulfed　

COCA.45984

柯林斯词典

• VERB （常指突然）吞没，吞噬
  If one thingengulfsanother, it completely covers or hides it, often in a sudden and unexpected way.
  1. A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats...
     山体滑坡掩埋了一栋公寓楼，造成一名7岁男孩丧生。
  2. The flat is engulfed in flames.
     那套公寓被火焰吞噬。
• VERB 使陷入（某种感觉或情绪）
  If a feeling or emotionengulfsyou, you are strongly affected by it.
  1. ...the pain that engulfed him...
     将他吞噬的苦痛
  2. He looked around his dark, cluttered office and was engulfed by a feeling of emptiness.
     他环顾自己昏暗杂乱的办公室，陷入一阵空虚之中。

双语例句

• It was not to be, and you were overwhelmed by the darkness that engulfed your world.
  因为你不可能让黑暗吞没你的世界。
• The little boat was engulfed in the waves.
  小船被波浪吞没了。
• Their hair and clothes were on fire but there was nothing they could do as the fire engulfed them.
  他们的头发和衣服都着了火，但是，当大火吞噬着他们的身体时，他们却什么也做不了。
• Syria and Iraq are engulfed by conflict, and Libya is in turmoil.
  叙利亚和伊拉克被卷入冲突之中，利比亚陷入动乱。
• One theory was that this sandbank had blocked flowing waters and generated huge whirlpools that engulfed vessels.
  有专家认为，这个沙坝阻挡了席卷而来的水流，由此形成的巨大漩涡将船只无情倾没。
• A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats
  山体滑坡掩埋了一栋公寓楼，造成一名7岁男孩丧生。
• And rather than drowning in US dollars central banks the globe over were engulfed by a vicious dollar shortage.
  全球各央行不是被美元所淹没，而是被恶性美元短缺所吞噬。
• Since then, violence has engulfed both the Muslim dominated Kashmir Valley and the Hindu dominated Jammu region.
  从那以后，暴力便席卷了穆斯林控制的克什米尔谷地和印度教徒占主导的查谟地区。
• Russia then annexed Ukraine's Black Sea Crimean Peninsula, and a pro-Russia mutiny has engulfed eastern Ukraine.
  俄罗斯紧接着就吞并了乌克兰的黑海克里米亚半岛，一场亲俄的反抗席卷了乌克兰东部。
• A poignant sense engulfed him of the one-way flow of time.
  他深感到岁月流逝，一去不回。